This Aug. 26, 2013 file photo shows Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia. U.S. forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria, U.S. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

On Monday, Kerry called the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria “undeniable” and a “moral obscenity,” in the strongest remarks yet from the Obama administration.

Speaking on Monday afternoon, Kerry said the significance of the attack that left hundreds dead went beyond Syria itself. “This is about the large-scale, indiscriminate use of weapons that the civilized world, long ago, decided must never be used at all,” he said.

“What is before us today is real. And it is compelling,” Kerry continued, adding that President Barack Obama was determined to hold Syria accountable.

Kerry accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime of failing to cooperate with chemical weapons inspectors from the UN “at every turn” and destroying evidence of the attack through shelling. “That is not the behavior of a government that has nothing to hide,” Kerry said.

“Our sense of basic humanity is offended, not only by this cowardly crime, but also by the cynical attempt to cover it up,” he added.

Kerry said that the Syrian government’s delayed decision to allow a team of UN inspectors near the site was “too late.”

The West has more to do with the Hong Kong protest movement than it would like us to know. It’s the ugly face of Washington’s long-standing foreign policy directed at destabilizing one of its long-standing economic foes: China.

The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.

Think about who gets rich off of the Venezuela regime-change agenda. It’s the same people that said we had to invade Iraq in order to prevent nuclear apocalypse. It’s the same people who said the world would stop turning on its axis if we didn’t carpet bomb Libya and Syria.